Animals Have Feelings

Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of "Pleasurable
Kingdom and Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals," sheds light on
the inner lives of animals and the ethical issues that this knowledge
raises in regards to the way we treat them. For example, he mentions
that "Each year, we confine more than 50 billion [animals] in
industrialized conditions before sending them to slaughter. The problem
with this is that animals have feelings."

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they are a lot more like us than most of us think

We live in a society in which we are used to giving in into our
desires and pleasures, many times forgetting or choosing not to
acknowledge, the great suffering we cause to so many of the creatures
that share the planet with us. However, the extensive evidence that
shows God's animals have feelings, fear death and pain, and enjoy life,
should be more than enough to stop their exploitation. Our Christian
faith calls us to be compassionate and merciful.